This is just me replying to my own message to see what the comment thread looks like. There is a module that can be installed that will make this look more like a traditional forum, though it may take some doing in setting it up, I need to read up further on it.

The fixed width of this theme which we adapted for our use on the site has its pros and cons like so much else with the new site. The pros is that as the webmaster or administator or designer or whatever... website creator - there! You have a better idea of what the site might look like across the board. Though we never know for sure because of all the different browsers and platforms out there in use. I have been using the new site mostly using Safari and Firefox on the Mac myself. Just between those two, it looks different between the two.

For those that use their web browser in a full screen mode, the fixed width will seem to be a waste of real estate. I don't use the browser that way myself as I feel the browser is wasting too much of my monitor real estate. It seems more of a common practice on Windows to do it that way, and the times when I had to use Windows for whatever reason, i found myself doing it as well.

Although I have tweaked the theme a bit, I did not create it myself. I wish I had the time to learn and do that myself. The fixed width is a condition of the theme itself.

I guess the way around it all was if the theme provided an option to go either way, giving visitors here a choice between the two.

Who knows, we may go with another theme in the future that will do this or simply not be a fixed width theme. I initially tested out about a half a dozen themes as possible candidates for the new site. Of those, I don't think many were fixed widths outisde of this one (if any at all). But they had other issues that were of greater concern. Perhaps if and when those issues are addressed, we can revisit them.

Another solution is down the road we may offer alternative themes, which you can choose to use via your individual account settings.

Hi there. Well this is very exciting, my first post on the new site. Just letting you know I was Shockeye07 but have changed to Mr Smith (new site, new name) sadly not John Smith, complete with new picture. Looking forward to exploring the new site. Good work fellas.

The WYSIWYG editor has been installed since the original message in this test thread. To access it, if it does not automatically appear, click on the "Input format" disclosure triangle and choose the Rich Editor option.

It even has smiley faces, although, not a huge collection (I will see about adding more at some point).

What I have noticed is this built-in forum software doesn't offer the ability to automatically quote the previous message. Egads! How can that be? Sigh.

I just moved this thread to Website Feedback instead of Doctor Who Chatter. When it was created, it was simply to test the forum out and at the time, not all the different forums had been created yet, so it was placed in Doctor Who Chatter, but obviously this has nothing to do with Doctor Who.

In the world of, erm, the archaic print media we've known for decades (centuries!) that there's a comfort zone for the back-and-forth motion of the human eyeball, and the new layout of this site fits it perfectly. So I think it's perfect. Except, as daveac pointed out, that long threads will get vanishingly narrow...